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8.30 – 9.45 am

Keynote Biography

Architecting SOA applications for Business Agility

Ron Todd is a World Wide Solutions Architect within IBM’s Software Group.

Ron works with IBM customers in helping apply Business Process Management solutions within a Services Oriented Architecture.  He has worked in numerous industries, including Insurance, Telecommunications, Banking and Finance. Ron has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and has worked in different areas including software architecture, software development, project management, and technical sales.  He has focused on SOA and Business Process Management software the last seven years while at Vitria Technology, Webify Solutions and IBM.  Ron joined IBM through the Webify Solutions acquisition in August 2006.

Ron Todd
World Wide Solutions Architect,
IBM Software Group

10.00 – 10.50

Breakout Session Biographies

Breakout 1

A RESTful project approach

A successful object technology and distributed computing practitioner, Philip has a quantitative approach towards software engineering. Philip architects and delivers systems involving millons of edge devices, transacting billions of dollars in regulated markets using REST approaches. Working with objects for the past 20 years, over the past eight years Philip has developed high performance REST architectures for large scale financial, web, mobile and pervasive computing markets. Major clients include News Limited, Macquarie Group, MYOB, Vodafone, Tab Limited, Travelex and Toyota.

Philip Haynes 
Principal Consultant

Breakout 2

Consumerisation of IT

Gianpaolo Carraro, Director, Architecture Strategy, Microsoft Corp. In his current role, Gianpaolo leads a team of architects driving thought leadership and architectural best practices in the area of Software + Services, SOA and SaaS. Prior to Microsoft, Gianpaolo helped inflate and then burst the .com bubble as co-founder and chief architect of a SaaS startup. Gianpaolo started his career in Research where he was looking for random ideas that could be patented or discussed in academic circles as a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories. You can learn more about him through his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/gianpaolo

Gianpaolo Carraro
Director
Architecture Strategy

Breakout 3

Mythbusters - The Truth About Cloud Computing

Peter Coffee joined salesforce.com last year after spending 18 years as an internationally published technology analyst and columnist with eWEEK and PCWeek. He now works with enterprise and commercial developers to extend and refine the company’s Force.com Platform-as-a-Service. Peter was previously the first manager of PC planning at The Aerospace Corporation, where he also worked in space systems applications of artificial intelligence techniques. Before that Peter was a Senior Engineer working in arctic project management and chemical facility construction at Exxon. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University; he has held faculty appointments in management science, computer science and business analytics and is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.

Peter Coffee
Director of Platform Intelligence,
Salesforce.com

 10.50 – 11.00

 Morning Tea 

 11.10 – 12.00

Roundtable Subject Matter Expert Biographies

Round Table 1

REST vs SOAP

Brett McDowall is an expert in the fields of enterprise architecture, distributed Internet based systems and object-oriented systems architecture.  He is currently Chief Architect at Object Consulting. 

Brett has been with Object Consulting for 15 years and has over 20 years’ experience in the visioning, architecture, analysis, design, management and implementation of major projects.  He is a specialist in telecoms and distributed systems with experience spanning the insurance, banking, finance and government sectors. Brett has also played a major role in the creation and ongoing development of Process MeNtOR, Object's world class software engineering methodology.

In his current role Brett plays a major part in the architecture and development of enterprise systems. He liaises between business managers, software developers and project managers at large organisations to help them understand the applicability of new technology to their business. He assists in making recommendations about if, and when, to adopt new technologies and, where required, creates appropriate new technology architectures.

Brett McDowall, Chief Architect

Round Table 2

Preparing for the cloud

David Lemphers is a Platform Evangelist for Microsoft Australia, specialising in Microsoft Dynamics technologies. David has over 10 years of architecture and platform experience with organisations such as Mobil Oil Corp, Dimension Data and Ernst & Young before joining Microsoft in 2005. David is devilishly handsome, dangerously debonair, and a feverish kleptomaniac, so please keep all pens and trinkets within your sight when he is around.

David Lemphers
Platform Evangelist,
Microsoft Dynamics Technologies

Round Table 3

Your SOA implementation is now a teenager and out of control!

Vivek serves as an Architect at ThoughtWorks in developing large-scale applications, the integration of disparate systems and improvement in business alignment with IT. He interacts with product groups in Microsoft providing feedback for product strategy, participating in software design reviews and providing a conduit for exchange of ideas between ThoughtWorks and Microsoft. He is passionate about the role of technology as an enabler for social purposes.

Vivek holds a BSc in Computer Science from University of Bombay and an MBA in Finance from University of Maryland, College Park.

Vivek Vaid
Microsoft Service Line Lead & Architect

Round Table 4

SOA Delivery Realities

Robert Pepper is an IT Architect with IBM Global Business Services, and has been the lead architect on a major SOA implementation for the last three years

Robert Pepper
IT Architect

Round Table 5

Mythbusters #1 – Developing applications in the Cloud is difficult and requires new skills  

Mike Burnside is a Principal Sales Engineer at Salesforce.com where he specialises in the design and development of Platform as a Service (PaaS) applications.  Mike has over 20 years experience in the IT industry including senior consulting and architecture roles at major database and ERP vendors (as well as a couple of not so major dot-coms for good measure). He has designed and developed solutions across a wide range of industries and technologies including VLDB data warehouses, vehicle telemetry (SOA), image recognition and geospatial systems (Java/Object-Relational Database), transaction processing (J2EE), e-Procurement systems (XML) and many more.   Mike has presented many papers at local and international conferences and has stopped counting the number of training courses he has conducted!

Derek Laney is a Senior Product Specialist at salesforce.com with over ten years of IT-related experience as both an engineer and consultant in a variety of business sectors.  He has extensive experience in design, implementation, analysis, and troubleshooting, in enterprise environments.  In his current role, Derek delivers concise guidance and recommendations for organisations looking to improve their business operations through the implementation of CRM.  In this capacity Derek is also responsible for assisting enterprises to incorporate force.com into their technology vision and is a specialist in CRM deployments in the Pharmaceutical and Financial Services industries. 

Mike Burnside
(Melbourne)

Derek Laney
Senior Product Specialist
(Sydney)

Round Table 6

Thick clients, smart clients, desktop developments and SOA

Chris Seymour has over 10 years’ experience in the IT industry, performing key design and development roles in software vendor, corporate and consultancy environments.

Chris has a proven track record in helping companies achieve practical software architectures and delivery environments, increasing the performance of development teams while minimizing risk. He has designed and delivered solutions across a range of sectors and technologies, employing Service Oriented Architecture as a core strategy in achieving flexibility, stability, security and performance.

Chris offers technical leadership throughout the development lifecycle, with extensive experience across iterative and waterfall environments. He is an effective communicator and highly skilled in bridging the business/technology gap.

Chris Seymour, Supervising Consultant

Round Table 7

Service economies for SOA

Nigel Watson is an Architect Advisor for Microsoft Australia, and works with the software architecture community in Melbourne. His role is to help build awareness of Microsoft's platform, tools and architectural practices, while showing how these may be leveraged to provide value in heterogeneous enterprise environments.   Prior to joining Microsoft more than six years ago, Nigel worked in a range of software engineering roles over a period of nine years - mostly on Unix-based platforms, and mostly in C++ and Java. Specialising in protocols and messaging, his work included development, design and architecture of network-based software systems in the telecommunications and finance industries. Nigel holds a Masters degree in Computer Science (specialising in network and application security) from the University Of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Nigel Watson
Architect Advisor

Round Table 8

Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) - Deployment and Service Management
(Melbourne only)

Arun is Senior IT Architect within IBM Global Account (IGA), Asia Pacific.
His role is to help IBM Business Units in developing their IT enablement strategies and deliver solutions that not only map with the business strategy but also address cost, delivery time, and standardisation criteria by containing the technical risks.
During his professional career he has worked as a practising IT Architect for a wide range of industries including Mining, Professional Services, Government Supported Bodies - United Nations, Manufacturing, Banking & Finance, Telecommunications and Utilities. In the last few year he has been working on projects ranging from Infrastructure rationalisation, server virtualization, infrastructure deployment for global sourcing, IT infrastructure requirements for hyper growth countries, AP wide integration of recent IBM acquisitions and consolidation of application hosting environments.
 
Arun joined IBM’s Architecture Competency in 2000. Prior to joining IBM, since 1990 he was engaged by Wang Global as Senior Consultant. Before joining Wang Global, he was senior managing consultant with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India, where he has managed application development and implementation programs for major corporations in Europe, US and India.
 
Arun holds masters in Web Computing from RMIT, masters in Systems & Management form Indian Institute of Technology, and first class honours in Mechanical Engineering (Industrial Automation) from Pant University, India.
His professional certifications include IT Architect Certification from IBM and Master Certified IT Architect from the Open Group. His interests include Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, Service Oriented Infrastructure, Service Management and OnDemand Data Centers.

Arun Gupta
Senior IT Architect
IBM Global Account

Coal Face Experiences of An Architect on Large SOA Engagements
(Sydney only)

Kathryn Kennedy is a Certified Senior IT Architect with Global Business Services (the service side of IBM’s business) and has been with IBM for over 13 years. Kathryn’s current role in IBM is to promote the use of and introduce improvements to methods and tools on IBM SOA engagements in Australia and New Zealand. Kathryn has been a practitioner on several client engagements delivering SOA into production.

Kathryn Kennedy
Senior IT Architect,
Global Business Services

 12.10 – 13.00 

Roundtable Subject Matter Expert Biographies

Round Table 1

Pragmatic Domain-Driven Design

Steven Williams has over thirteen years’ experience in the IT industry with the last eight years devoted to the architecture and development of Enterprise Java systems. He is currently the current Lead Architect on a large State Government project and a committee member of Enterprise Java Australia. Steven is also an active contributor the JBoss Rules project.

Steven Williams, Supervising Consultant

Round Table 2

When Aspect Oriented Architecture meet Service Oriented Architecture

Yuri Misnik is a Lead Solutions Architect in the Asia-Pacific Microsoft Services Organization.  His day to day job is to provide architectural guidance and support to the local teams in the APAC working on a large-scale complex projects in the Financial Services and Public Sector Industries. During the last 4 years Yuri was working full time with Commonwealth Bank of Australia and was part of the architecture leadership team in major CBA online projects. Yuri has more than 12 years of experience in IT with primary focus on Microsoft technologies, SOA, .NET and recently S+S architectures. Yuri has been a speaker on a number of Australian and international IT conferences and actively participates in the local IT community.

(Melbourne Presenter) -
Yuri Misnik, Microsoft Services Architect

(Sydney Presenter) -
Tom Hollander

Round Table 3

SOA at Macquarie Equities

Gaurav Singh has worked with the Equity Markets business since he joined ISD Equity Markets in 2004. He initially helped deliver EMG’s retail banking systems, and then moved on to architecting and managing the development of online capability to support the Prime trading platform and the distribution of EMG’s structured products. More recently, he has been involved in working with the business in making key architectural decisions across the broader global equities business.
Gaurav has a degree in software engineering from UNSW and has active interests in practical architectures geared around delivering realtime solutions to financial services.You can contact him on gaurav.singh@macquarie.com

Gaurav Singh
Enterprise Architect
Macquarie Equities

Round Table 4

How do you govern IT assets when The Terminator is not around?

Richard Dowling has over 15 years experience in software development.  Initially working as a developer/lead engineer on defense-based flight simulators, and more recently working in pre-sales, consulting and training at IBM years. Richard is currently IBM's Rational Brand Architect. Previously the Rational Technical Manager, Richard brings extensive knowledge of software configuration management, embedded systems development, and compiler technology.

Davyd Norris has over 20 years of software development experience and is a Senior IT Architect with IBM’s Software Group (Rational). He is based in Melbourne and provides training, consulting and mentoring to corporate  clients throughout Asia Pacific. During his time with IBM Rational, he has presented many software engineering and tool training courses, presented at many conferences and workshops and been extensively involved in a wide range of consulting and mentoring engagements, ranging in size from small 2-3 person teams through to 300+ person teams. Davyd sits on the core teams of several of Rational's Communities of Practice, is a foundation member of tRational's Enterprise Architecture Special Interest Group, and was recently elected a member of the IBM A/NZ Technical Experts Council. 

He is a regular presenter at internal and external conferences, was a contributing  author of several chapters in the Addison-Wesley book “Component Based Software Engineering”, and was most recently one of two key reviewers of the third edition of Grady Booch's "Object Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications". Davyd was also a core member of the team that developed Rational’s Architecture Description Standard (ADS) and the OMG Reusable Asset Specification (RAS).

 
Richard Dowling
Davyd Norris

Round Table 5

Mythbusters #2 – Integration in the Cloud is time consuming and insecure  

Clayton is a Senior Solution Consultant at salesforce.com specialising in designing custom implementations for enterprise clients across Asia Pacific.  In this role, Clayton has worked extensively with clients on utilising extensions to the salesforce.com core functionality.   His background covers a ten year span of development of web applications and services specialising in mobile and wireless technologies both in Europe and Asia.  He received his BA in Computer Science from Monash University and holds an MSc in Mobile Computing from Westminster University, London.

Clayton Brown
Senior Solution Consultant

Round Table 6

Mythbusters #3 – Data is less secure in a cloud environment  

Mike Burnside is a Principal Sales Engineer at Salesforce.com where he specialises in the design and development of Platform as a Service (PaaS) applications.  Mike has over 20 years experience in the IT industry including senior consulting and architecture roles at major database and ERP vendors (as well as a couple of not so major dot-coms for good measure). He has designed and developed solutions across a wide range of industries and technologies including VLDB data warehouses, vehicle telemetry (SOA), image recognition and geospatial systems (Java/Object-Relational Database), transaction processing (J2EE), e-Procurement systems (XML) and many more.   Mike has presented many papers at local and international conferences and has stopped counting the number of training courses he has conducted!

Derek Laney is a Senior Product Specialist at salesforce.com with over ten years of IT-related experience as both an engineer and consultant in a variety of business sectors.  He has extensive experience in design, implementation, analysis, and troubleshooting, in enterprise environments.  In his current role, Derek delivers concise guidance and recommendations for organisations looking to improve their business operations through the implementation of CRM.  In this capacity Derek is also responsible for assisting enterprises to incorporate force.com into their technology vision and is a specialist in CRM deployments in the Pharmaceutical and Financial Services industries. 

Mike Burnside
(Melbourne)

Derek Laney
Senior Product Specialist
(Sydney)

Round Table 7

Governing, without constraining, SOA and SaaS

Graham Elliott is an Architect within Microsoft Consulting Services in Australia where he works with enterprise customers involved in solutions architecture. His role is to help customers in heterogeneous environments understand and address business and IT challenges, and to help them build systems using Microsoft's platform, tools and architectural practices. Graham is a frequent speaker on Microsoft's application platform, architecture practices, application security and web services strategy. Before joining Microsoft, Graham was a Solutions Architect for Avanade Australia and Accenture, developing and supporting enterprise solutions across a range of technologies and platforms.

Graham Elliott
Architect
Microsoft Consulting Services

Round Table 8

Pragmatic Web Service Security

Halvard Skogsrud 
Consultant

13.00 – 14.05

 Lunch 

14.10 – 15.00

 Breakout Session Biographies

Breakout 1

Securing a federated SOA

Dr Paul Ashley is the Lead Architect for the SOA Advanced Technology Team in Australia/New Zealand, the IBM Software Group worldwide SOA team. In that role, he is supporting the Asia-Pacific South region and his responsibilities include technical responsibility for SOA engagements and contributing to thought leadership in the region. His background covers activities including consulting, solution architecture, application development, systems integration, and information security. He is a regular speaker at industry and academic conferences and publishes regularly. Paul has 17 years of Information Technology and Communications experience. His PhD is in Information Security. He has written a book titled Intranet Security, authored an IBM redbook titled Understanding SOA Security Design and Implementation and has written numerous technical papers. He has also filed many patents and received awards at IBM for patent filing and authorship.   

Paul works closely with a number of universities being an IBM University Ambassador. He is a member of two university industry advisory boards, guest lectures in security at two universities and supervises postgraduate students. In 2006 he was recognized world wide by IBM for his university contributions. He also leads the Australia and New Zealand Software Engineering Community within IBM and is a member of the A/NZ technical expert’s council.

Dr Paul Ashley, Lead Architect, SOA Advanced Technology, IBM Australia/New Zealand

Breakout 2

Service Oriented Workflow with WCF and WF 

Ron Jacobs is a Sr. Technical Evangelist in the Microsoft Platform Evangelism group based at the company headquarters in Redmond Washington. Ron's evangelism is focused on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Since 1999 Ron has been a product and program manager on various Microsoft products including the .Net Framework, Windows Communication Foundation and COM+. A top-rated conference speaker, author and podcaster, Ron brings over 20 years of industry experience to his role of helping Microsoft customers and partners to build architecturally sound and secure applications.

Ron Jacobs
Sr. Technical Evangelist
Microsoft Platform Evangelism

Breakout 3

Lightweight SOA through Web Widgets 

Phillip Calcado is a senior consultant with ThoughtWorks. In the past years he was responsible for the SOA infrastructure for video / audio production and delivery in one of the top five media conglomerates in the world. Before this experience he architected SOA-based architectures or companies in mining, billing and real-time trading. He is passionate about software engineering and keeps a blog in http://fragmental.tw

Phillip Calcado
Senior Consultant

 15.00 - 15.15

Afternoon Tea  

 15.15 – 16.05

Roundtable Subject Matter Expert Biographies

Round Table 1

SOA and CBD - reuse 

Peter Diggins
Principal Consultant

Round Table 2

SOA/ S+S

Greg Willis is an Architect Advisor within the Microsoft DPE team with over 15 years commercial experience in the IT, telecoms, media and finance industries. He joined Microsoft Australia in 2004.  Greg’s previous experience includes architecting high-traffic (and in other cases high-hype) web sites in the halcyon days of Web 1.0 before the web world generally worried about such trivial matters as business models, revenue etc. He now focuses a lot of his time on Software + Services and Web 2.0 and their application in enterprise architectures.  He also has an on-going fascination with the media industry and cool technology like Silverlight.

Gianpaolo Carraro
Architect Advisor
Microsoft DPE team

Round Table 3